Religion: High Pitch, Low Key

On New Year's Eve television screens, Evangelist Billy Graham,
sports-jacketed and gray-templed, delivered a fireside jeremiad. Citing
the year's woeful parade of scandals, crises and other miseries, Graham
warned that the U.S. would experience even worse difficulties if
Americans did not forthwith repent and return to God. "The only
answer," he said, "is Jesus."

Throughout the half-hour sermon, Graham never once mentioned the
campaign that was supposed to have been the evangelical catchword of
the year: Key 73 (TIME, Feb. 19). As labored over for six years by
Graham's organization and more than...